Isla Cristina
March 29, 2023 Just another 137 kilometers or 85 miles from Sevilla, near the border with Portugal, is Isla Cristina. This small island is a popular tourist destination for Spanish tourists, and in particular those from Sevilla, who come here during July and August for the beautiful beaches. We arrived at the end of March, […]
Sevilla
March 27-28, 2023 We have a house sit coming up in the Algarve region of Portugal, but with a few days yet before that starts we decided to take a slow journey in that direction. Just eighty miles or two hours up the road from Cádiz is Seville, or Sevilla. Since (once again) I’m not […]
Spain, Part Four?: Ronda & Cádiz
March 21-29, 2023 Spain is a big country, at least by European standards. Spain is about 75% the size of Texas. And like Texas, it’s big enough that the landscape and the climate varies by region. This is at least our fourth time traveling through different parts of Spain, if we include the first couple […]
Rabat, and Out.
March 20, 2023 The night before leaving Marrakech for Rabat, I received a message on my phone from the owner of the apartment that we had reserved for our last night in Morocco. The message said “Apartment is only for family and married couples with marriage papers.” I was a bit confused at first. Then […]
Marrakech
March 18, 2023 Those who know me or have read my previous travels know that I tend to avoid cities, especially large cities. I might be the only traveler that rode entirely across Colombia while intentionally bypassing Medellin, Bogota, and Cali. Lately I’ve taken to saying “Nothing good ever happens in big cities”. I’m just […]
Tizi n’ Test Pass: Another “Most Dangerous Road”
March 17, 2023 We spent a couple of nights at Bivouac Lot of Stars outside Ouarzazate before heading further west to Taroudant. This place (Bivuoac Lot of Stars) was a small oasis in the middle of the city. Nothing fancy; in fact, a bit the opposite. But comfortable. Lots of peacocks here. These were hanging […]
Dades Gorge
March 12, 2023 Okay, I’ll reiterate what I said earlier about stereotypes. Northern Morocco, coming out of Tanger Med to Chefchouen, and south of Chefchouen, is not what I thought of as stereotypical Morocco. It’s very green. For the past few days, we’ve ridden through what I thought Morocco would look like: desert. Not Sahara […]
Chefchouen to Merzouga: The Sahara, Berbers, and Camels
March 11, 2023 It has taken a while, but the Morocco we’ve seen on television and movies has arrived. This is the Sahara Desert. In one day, from Chefchouen to Midelt, we experienced many different environments. Green fields, rolling hills, olive groves, pine forests (with monkeys!), mountains, snow, and finally desert. In the middle of […]
Hopping Continents: Different Worlds
March 8, 2023 I spent my early years growing up in the Los Angeles area, in an urban concrete jungle. When I was thirteen years old, my parents decided we were moving back to Texas, where I was born, and where I had visited relatives on occasion, but hadn’t lived since I was two years […]
Manilva, Spain
March 6, 2023 It was good to be back on the T7, and heading south to new adventures. We left Malaga and rode along the Costa del Sol towards Manilva. It’s a busy highway with occasional views of the sea, but still a good ride. At one point we hit stopped traffic and crept along, […]
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